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Sorry Manners: Civility and Incivility in the Scene - Part II

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Mar 132009

by Chris M (Black Rose) and Lady Medora (NOPE)

In fairness, we don’t want to suggest that leatherfolk are inherently rude people. The scene, as wonderful as it can be, contains many subtle and seldom discussed “stress factors” that contribute to uncivil behavior. Like water over a stone, these stress factors wear on the nerves year after year, thus setting the stage for impatience, irritation, depression, and the empathy deficit we have already discussed. These are the rudeness-producing rudeness that prompts retaliatory rudeness in return.

Info Out: Leather Leadership Conference Scholarships

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Feb 032009

LLC XIII – 2009 Scholarships now available!

The board of the Leather Leadership Conference, Inc. is pleased to announce that it is offering 15 full scholarships to cover the cost of registration to the up-coming LLC-XIII in Atlanta, the weekend of April 3-5, 2009. Applications are accepted until February 24. Those awarded will be notified by March 4.

Confidential requests for scholarships may be made to scholarships@leatherleadership.org. If you have already registered for the conference, you can be reimbursed for your registration fee.

Now, having said all that, I just want to say that this is an event that I have been DYING to attend to YEARS. I’m going to apply. But it only covers registration. I’m gonna need help with transportation and accommodation too… Back to the public advisory

Where to find me in 2009...

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Jan 162009

Barely into the New Year and I’ve got many a plan up my sleeve already. Which surprises even me given the events of the fall.

In September I had major surgery (I was sick when I was at the conference) and have just returned to work now. But I’m still being a a fabulous kinky pervert!

Humour: The lazy haughty submissive

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Jan 162009

I found this on a forum I belong to: Dark Connections, which is an online Yahoo group for Black and PoC practitioners of BDSM and their allies. A lot of folks here attend the Annual Black Beat Conference every year.

Anyways… this is particularly timely given some of the conversations I’ve been having lately…

Canadian Mayhem, Education No Responses »

Jan 152009

A Weekend Event for LeatherWomen
all past, present and future women of any orientation or experience level welcome

http://canadianmayhem.com/

Pushing Twitter to LiveJournal

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Dec 212008

A friend said: “why don’t you post to your LiveJournal?”

Which is a valid question since I’m kinda anti-lurker, ya know?

And I replied: If I could Twitter via phone and have that post to there, you’d see some content.”

So then she hooked me into phone Twittering. But she didn’t know how to help me post from one to the other.

Do you?

Info out: A club for Transmasculine people

Sex & Gender No Responses »

Dec 042008

La FraternitiÃ© du Loup-Garou
http://lagarou.org

La Garou is a levi/leather club whose main focus is transmasculine people who were born female or intersexed and raised female but whose gender identiy is masculine. It is also for people who are interested in showing support for transmasculine people in the leather community.

Online time wasting goes kinky

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Dec 032008

OMFG

I’m not admittng where I got this crazy link to a game that features a dom and her sub travelling through a dungeon, whipping their opponents and collecting various toys fo extra life and for use as weapons…

http://www.adultswim.com/games/game/index.html?game=dungeons

Loving it and the sound effects too…

Info out: Semi-Annual Server Training Workshop by NorCal Tea Society

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Dec 022008

Semi-Annual Server Training Workshop by NorCal Tea Society

WHAT: Intensive hands-on server training for the tea parties hosted
by the NorCal Ladies Tea and Discussion Society.

WHEN: Sunday, January 18, 2009
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A Place Where Race and BDSM Intersect

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Nov 262008

I’ve been screaming about the intersection of race and BDSM for a bit (not as loud as some though!) Even at this past weekend’s event I brought it up. No surprise when it came to the response of the participants. One of the presenters, Rope, who is Native American, lobbed a word or two in at different points too. I aspire to her grace in dropping and moving on.

Came across this wonderful thing that I think I just MUST attend:

How to tell people that they are racist

Writings on Race No Responses »

Nov 252008

LOVE this:

http://www.illdoctrine.com/2008/07/how_to_tell_people_they_sound.html

A wonderful video. I stole the link from a friend who posted it to Facebook. Someone commented that they were confused because there was no need for the Vlogger to “act Black”. I thought… REALLY?! Did you see the same video as me? GAWD.

Promise I’ll write about my time in San Fran soon. And yes, for the folks who keep typing me, I’ll be doing a D/s Dinner/salon soon, soon soon…

Databases + gay marriage = FAIL

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Nov 252008

Here’s a link to an interesting blog post that speaks about the consequences in a very geeky way.

Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective

There are various objections to expanding the conventional, up-tight, as-God-intended “one man, one woman” notion of marriage but by far the least plainly bigoted ones I am aware of are the bureaucratic ones.
To be blunt, the systems aren’t set up to handle it. The paper forms have a space for the husband’s name and a space for the wife’s name. Married people carefully enter their details in block capitals and post the forms off to depressed paper-pushers who then type that information into software front-ends whose forms are laid out and named in precisely the same fashion. And then they hit “submit” and the information is filed away electronically in databases which simply keel over or belch integrity errors when presented with something so profound as a man and another man who love each other enough to want to file joint tax returns.

Watching the American Election

Writings on Race No Responses »

Nov 042008

I’m a Canadian. So I can’t vote. But I did participate in the Global Electoral College:
http://www.economist.com/vote2008/index.cfm

This is a historical moment for the world I think. Hopefully I’m not just full of media and pop culture brain washing. I don’t think so.

I was born two years after, almost to the day, of Martin Luther King’s assasination. I’ve always considered myself a Child of his Dream. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk

Forty years later, in my lifetime, I am alive to see this possibility arise. I wonder what he would say now? Or Rosa Parks? Or the many other strong voices that missed this moment.

However, I have also not lost sight that regardless of what occurs, this election will make history. A pair consisting of the oldest man to run and a woman are also running. How interesting that in these times of international distress that the States are choosing from a among a slate of candidates that are challenging no matter which way they vote.

I’ve been resisting the lure of the TV for over an hour but now I’m feeling twitchy. I feel like I gotta watch this. I need to SEE. Before I turned it off I felt like a junkie. Compulsively switching between stations and checking the internet. The last time this happened to me it was Hurricane Katrina blowing change through the States.

When religion meets Lego

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Oct 302008

The Brick Testament is the largest, most comprehensive illustrated Bible in the world with over 3,600 illustrations that retell more than 300 stories from The Bible using LEGO

The Brick Testament - Noah's Ark

http://www.thebricktestament.com/

Play with the future of the world

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Oct 092008

Oh… I wish I had the focus to play this…
http://superstructgame.com/

Stuff OTHER people like..

Writings on Race No Responses »

Aug 132008

Well meeting the author of the blog Stuff White People Like was very interesting. Started blogging January 8, 2008 and had a printed book by June 6, 2008. More abut that another time. He did mention that all kinds of lists had sprung up in imitation. So I googled: